/WAYRT/- WHAT ARE YOU READING TODAY?

[Anonymous No.16113464]

This is a creative thread with the intention of giving the space for anyone who wants to share what they are currently reading, their thoughts, opinions and feeling related to those books. Hopefully this will also encourage and motivate other anons who are wasting their time to read more.

Share with us:
>What was the last book you read?
>What are you currently reading?
>What are you planning on reading later?

[Anonymous No.16113496]

>>16113464
>>What was the last book you read?
Ancient Egypt by Laurna Oakes.
>>What are you currently reading?
Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish, 8th Ed.
>>What are you planning on reading later?
Ecology: Concepts and Applications, by Molles. Fifth edition.

[Anonymous No.16113537]

>>16113464
-100 years of solitude
-The name of the rose
-The Illiad

[Anonymous No.16113552]

>last thing you read?
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Stugatsky
>what are you reading?
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
>Planning on reading later?
I dunno, that’s usually why I come to /lit/. Atm I’m looking for something that covers moral degeneration in a person (i.e. slipping into addiction, going through a bad identity crisis and the like) for cope material

[Anonymous No.16113560]

>>16113552
>Atm I’m looking for something that covers moral degeneration in a person
Have you read Crime and Punishment?

[Anonymous No.16113574]

>>16113560
Not yet. I’ll have to check it out, thanks!

[Anonymous No.16113645]

>>16113464
>last
Norwegian Wood, had the book for ages and finally got around to reading it. Enjoyable, fairly comfy story. I understand why Murakami isn’t among this board’s favorites, but he’s produced some decent novels.

>current
pic related, haven’t read any essential Kafka yet (except for Metamorphosis). Loving it so far, his writing style and the drawn-out presentation of K.’s thoughts is endlessly amazing. I guess I’m also lucky to be able to read it in its original language.

>next
Faulkner’s Collected Stories, found a copy in my dad’s shelf. I’ve heard good things about some of the stories in the book.

[Anonymous No.16113659]

I'm currently reading these four.

Salinger's shorts are a wonder to read but I admit some of them filtered me in a way because although I enjoyed reading them, I couldn't grasp their meaning immediately and had to resort to reviews of them. It's pretty neat overall.

Ficciones is a blast. The reviews of the non-existent works are kinda off for me, but they're enjoyable.

Maslow's work (I'm halfway through) is quite enlightening about ourselves. Being self-aware of our own basic needs might be valuable in our lives and our constant pursuit of them.

Lima Barreto is great, one of the most overlooked authors of Brazilian lit. The story is funny (boring sometimes) and comfy, with Barreto's prose carrying the reader to some extremely mundane events and dialogue with wit and pertinent critiques of late XIX century Brazil.

>>16113537
Based

[Anonymous No.16113713]

>What was the last book you read?
a book on presocratics
>What are you currently reading?
Comedies by Aristophanes
>What are you planning on reading later?
Tragedies by Euripides

Started with the greeks about two months ago. I am almost certain I'll get filtered by Plato later on, but for now I'm having a great time.

[Anonymous No.16113736]

>>16113464
>>What was the last book you read?
>>What are you currently reading?
>>What are you planning on reading later?

[Anonymous No.16113740]

>What was the last book you read?
Brave New World since somehow I never read it.

>What are you currently reading?
The Aeneid since I already read The Iliad and The Odyssey earlier in the year.

>What are you planning on reading later?
I haven't really decided yet. I usually decide on what I'll read next right after I finish whatever I'm currently reading.

[Anonymous No.16113763]

>What was the last book you read?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>What are you currently reading?
>>16113659

>What are you planning on reading later?
Faulkner's Selected Short Stories

[Anonymous No.16114070]

>>16113464
I'm a scifag
-Tiamat's Wrath
-A Deepness in the Sky
-Peace Talks

[Anonymous No.16114099]

>>16113464
started reading the agony of power by baudrillard and anti-education by nietzsche

[Anonymous No.16114129]

>What was the last book you read?
Stephen Florida. Really fun book to be honest. Main character is schizoish and obsessed with sports which I could relate to
>What are you currently reading?
The Myth of Sisyphus
>What are you planning on reading later?
Have to finish Norwegian Wood

[Anonymous No.16114154]

I started the brothers karamazov a few days ago. I'm where the brothers and dad are visiting the elder, and the dads being a dick. Dmitri isn't there, and the elder just went outside to talk to the peasant women, with the young girl flirting with Alexey. I'm reading the bible alongside it. I'm liking it so far.

[Anonymous No.16114232]

I am currently reading this art book about alex grey

[Anonymous No.16114325]

I'm not reading, I'm writing a suicide note.

[Anonymous No.16114339]

>last
I'll name two because I spent a long time with the former and a short time with the latter.
Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World by Howard Ensign Evans. Took me a long time to finish because it was a bit technical for me, but I learned a lot. I'd love to post an excerpt about an entomologist who raised botfly maggots in his arm if anyone would care to read it.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (and Through the Looking-Glass) by Lewis Carroll. I've seen so many adaptations and works based on Alice, but had never read it—I enjoyed it so much I finished both stories in a day in a half. I should read more Victorian children's literature, and more literary nonsense.

>current
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. I just started an hour ago and got sidetracked by the foreword—the Belle Époque is one of my favorite time periods.

>next
I'm not sure yet; depending on how much I like Phantom, I might jump into the Hunchback of Notre Dame, but I also have a copy of Le Morte D'Arthur on my desk that I've been looking forward to. But I also might want to read early Arthurian legend first... Maybe I'll read The Monk and stick with the gothic literature.

[Anonymous No.16114357]

>>16113464
>What was the last book you read?
Demons
>What are you currently reading?
Against His-story, Against Leviathan
>What are you planning on reading later?
The Odyssey

[Anonymous No.16114391]

>What was the last book you read?
Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit. Pretty decent.
>What are you currently reading?
That Sloterdijk book I kept seeing on here. It's great so far. Also Robert Aickman short stories.
>What are you planning on reading later?
Austerlitz, Book of the New Sun, Twilight of the Idols

[Anonymous No.16114453]

>>16113464
>>What was the last book you read?
The Moon is Down. Brothers Karamazov if we don't count short stories
>>What are you currently reading?
Crime and Punishment
>>What are you planning on reading later?
Not sure. Either Notes from Underground, Brave New World, or maybe continue Musashi since I haven't read any in a while and stopped right at the start of book 3.

Gonna bike down to a coffee shop later and get to readin. Stay comfy frens

>>16114154
Glad to hear. It's a great book

[Anonymous No.16114488]

>>16114453
Have you already read Demons and The Idiot?

[Anonymous No.16114541]

>>16113560
by foucault?

[Anonymous No.16114589]

>>16113464
>last read
The Norman Conquest. Popular account but a good introduction and contained an extensive scholarly bibliography that I will eventually get to.

>current
The Public Burning. Genuinely some of the most inventive and well-written fiction I've ever read. Scathingly satirical but also leaps beyond that to become genuinely moving at times. Coover's got serious linguistic pyrotechnics.

>next
Don't know yet. Maybe the Federalist Papers. I'm a generalist.

[Anonymous No.16114598]

>>16114488
I have not, Brothers was my first Dosto.
I was later told it's better to read his other works before BK, but it's too late now and I still enjoyed it anyways.
Hoping to get through all of his main works before the end of the year

[Anonymous No.16114615]

>What was the last book you read?
Rhinoceros & Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco
>What are you currently reading?
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
>What are you planning on reading later?
Not sure.

[Anonymous No.16114679]

>What was the last book you read?
Lucky Jim
>What are you currently reading?
J R
>What are you planning on reading later?
Europe Central

I want to knock out a few beastly American postmodern tomes before classes start and I have far less free time

>>16114589
I was turned off trying out The Public Burning because people keep relating it to Trump. Would that be a distraction, or is that way off base?
>>16114339
>Life on a Little Known Planet: A Biologist's View of Insects and Their World by Howard Ensign Evans.
that sounds super interesting anon. if you're interested in stuff like Lewis Carroll and have a taste for technical subjects, you might be interested in Ratner's Star by Don Delillo
>>16114099
Agony of Power is good, but Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? and The Intelligence of Evil are prime final-stage Baudrillard
>>16113552
A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans is a classic moral decadence novel

[Anonymous No.16114767]

>>16114679
>I was turned off trying out The Public Burning because people keep relating it to Trump. Would that be a distraction, or is that way off base?

Everyone wants to see their contemporary politics in political satire. The truth is Coover has a bone to pick with everyone, government, media, citizen, society. I actually find it a lot more fitting to substitute Nixon for Kamala Harris and Eisenhower for Biden. You can't go wrong reading it, trust me

[Anonymous No.16114782]

>>16113464
Hentai doujins

[Anonymous No.16114900]

I want to read Faust next but don't know what translation to get. Any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.16114937]

>What was the last book you read?
Harassment Architecture, Confessions of a Mask, History of Neoliberalism
>What are you currently reading?
Keyne's General Theory and Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Keynes is taking me a long ass time but I'm part of a discussion group for it which is helping. Steinbeck is great.
>What are you planning on reading later?
No idea. Have an assload of books to look at. Probably either Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter or something by Hyman Minsky.

Fiction-wise, I want to read the Sandman and Transmetropolitan comic series.

[Anonymous No.16114951]

>>16113464
>What was the last book you read?
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
>What are you currently reading?
American Pastoral, by Philip Roth
>What are you planning on reading later?
Either Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie, or Under the Net, by Iris Murdoch. I’ll read both of them of course, it’s just a matter of which package arrives sooner. After I’m done with them I’ll probably read this Coetzee book I have on Dostoyevsky, and from there whatever I find in my local library that looks good pretty much.

[Anonymous No.16115293]

bump

[Anonymous No.16115324]

>>16113464
>>What was the last book you read?
The entire Rabbit series by Updike
>>What are you currently reading?
Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
>>What are you planning on reading later?
I'm open for suggestions. I bought The Island of Sakhalin by Chekhov and I'm reading it pretty slowly. I'd like some magical realism but as far as I know, I've read all of the good authors in that genre.

[Anonymous No.16115356]

>>16113464
>What was the last book you read?
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (didn't like it).
>What are you currently reading?
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami as well as picrel.
>What are you planning on reading later?
Uh probably The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto.

[Anonymous No.16115366]

>>16114679
Oh thanks, Anon! The book's from 1968, so it's interesting both in its subject matter and historical perspective. It's a fascinating read, the author really sheds a lot of light on the quiet field of entomology. I did get a little freaked out when he dedicated the last chapters of the book to talking about how we're rapidly descending into a suburban hellscape that will leave clueless suburbanites in charge of most of the country and how this will be but one symptom of a civilizational death spiral...

But, uh, the bugs were neat. I picked up lots of interesting concepts for a setting I'm working on in which insects adopt a religion and build a civilization similar to 16th century Europe.

Ratner's Star sounds interesting! I'll read about it a bit and might pick it up, thanks for the suggestion!